China has prevented ‘great tragedy’ in Xinjiang, state-run paper says

A police patrol walk in front of the Id Kah Mosque in the old city of Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China, on 22 March 2017.
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BEIJING, China, 13 August 2018

Massively stepped-up security in China’s restive far western region of Xinjiang has helped prevent “great tragedy”, a state-run newspaper said on Monday, in the country’s first response to a critical United Nations report on the situation there.

A UN human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uyghurs in China are held in what resembles a “massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy”.

China has said that Xinjiang faces a serious threat from Islamist militants and separatists who plot attacks and stir up tensions between the mostly Muslim Uyghur minority who call the region home and the ethnic Han Chinese majority.

Hundreds have died in unrest there in recent years.

In joint editorials in its Chinese and English versions, the widely-read Global Times tabloid said criticism of the rights record in Xinjiang was aimed at stirring trouble there and destroying hard-earned stability.

China’s security presence there has prevented Xinjiang from becoming another Syria or Libya, it added.

“There is no doubt that the current peace and stability in Xinjiang is partly due to the high intensity of regulations. Police and security posts can be seen everywhere in Xinjiang,” the paper wrote.

“But it’s a phase that Xinjiang has to go through in rebuilding peace and prosperity and it will transition to normal governance.”

Maintaining peace and stability there is in the basic interest of people in Xinjiang and all of China, it added.

“The turnaround in Xinjiang’s security situation has avoided a great tragedy and saved countless lives, thanks to powerful Chinese law and the strong ruling power of the Communist Party of China,” the paper wrote.

“What the West has been hyping has destroyed numerous countries and regions. When the same evil influence was spreading in Xinjiang, it was decisively curbed.”

Xinjiang has “no room for destructive Western public opinions”, and all steps must be taken to ensure its stability, it said.

“Peace and stability must come above all else. With this as the goal, all measures can be tried. We must hold onto our belief that keeping turmoil away from Xinjiang is the greatest human right.”

China’s Foreign Ministry has not yet responded to a request for comment on the United Nations report.

Comments

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10.

Jampel Senge, from Australia, says:on 16 August 2018 at 6:22 pm

In May 2014, Chinese dictator, Xi was calling for a “strike first” and “crushing blow” to the East Turkistan region which China calls Xinjiang. He also called for a “Great Wall of iron” against the people of this restive region. The ruthless Chen Quangguo was appointed from Tibet to East Turkistan to “crush” the East Turkistan Independence Movement or ETIM. After all, these regions are under military occupation. The people in Tibet and East Turkistan are not under CCP rule out of their choice but through colonial military occupation.
The so called “first strike” was initially introduced in Tibet by the same racist and ruthless Han Chavenist Chen Quanguo. He is a Xi loyalist and has become the attack dog of the CCP in restive regions like Tibet and East Turkistan. The Turkic people of E Turkistan are subjected to untold suffering by the Chinese Gestapos who are given untrammelled power of arbitrary arrest, shoot -at -sight and disappearances without a trace. Spiegel Online reports, “Nowhere in the world, not even in North Korea, is the population monitored as strictly as it is in Xinjiang”. “Oppression has been in place for years, but has worsened massively in recent months”. It has recruited 90,000 police officers in two years with 500 police officers for every 100,000 inhabitants. It’s equipped with modern state of the art surveillance the world has ever seen. It is like a war zone just like Tibet after the 2008 pan-Tibet Uprising.against Chinese rule. The CCP likes to think the world doesn’t know what it is doing in Tibet and East Turkistan but the world is smarter than the CCP leaders would like to think.. As the leader of Hong Kong Independence Movement Andy Chan, has rightly stated, “Communist China is a threat to all freedom loving people across the world”.

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khampa, from France, says:on 16 August 2018 at 12:09 am

The aggression of muslims are rather well-known. Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar is doing her best to crush the rise of Muslims in view of the challenge it posses to the buddhist majority.

In Europe, Burqa ban is going on at the moment. This is tantamount to banning a Tibetan from wearing his traditional dress. Stop and search by police on Muslim man is four times the white man in UK.

you get the picture. Donald trump imposed ban on several muslim majority countries. china is doing nothing that all other superpowers are not doing.

Let’s talk about india. Every year, thousands of muslims in kashmir go missing – generally abducted by indian government and covered up media – and indian people are happy to call them terrorists, and don’t care about their killings.

India might have killed more muslims in kashmir since 1959 than the chinese did of tibetans in the same period. yes, it is a shocker.

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Tib kshatriya says:on 16 August 2018 at 9:38 am

The utter rubbish you write betrays the brainwashing and force feeding that we all have been subjected to by libtard MSM, the academia and the so called intelligentsia. Thankfully, I woke up and see things clearly. You write about the militants (masquerading as freedom fighters) killed by the Indian forces but you never ever heard about the massacre and genocide of the Kashmiri Hindus (the indigenous people of Kashmir since time immemorial). The muslim invaders reduced them to a minority in their own land by massacring and forced conversion and finally in the 90’s committed genocide on the Hindus and many had to leave their ancestral land and become refugees in their own country. Why should the Indian govt have to put up the demand for Kashmir to become Pakistan or a muslim land when it has been part of India since time immemorial. Vajrayana Buddhism that we follow was founded in the land of Kashmir if you dint know and the 2nd international Buddhist conference under Kanishka was held there. Of course Guru Rimpoche as we all know was a Kashmiri. When we came to India as refugees, the Muslim Tibetans could go to Kashmir but Farook Abdullah did not want to take in any buddhist Tibetans. But of course more recently his son takes in tens of thousands of Rohingya Muslims into Jammu and Kashmir to secure his demographic. Don’t be naive and go parroting the pseudo’s. We should have love and care for all but don’t be naive. If one doesn’t learn from history that is stupidity.

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khampa, from Paris , says:on 16 August 2018 at 10:38 pm

You equated Kashmiri freedom fighters as militants.

The way Indian government touts about Kashmir being an indian terroritory since time immemorial is exactly analogous to China claiming Tibet. Both India and China has no clear basis as a matter of historical truth. Kashmir belongs to Kashmiris just as Tibet belongs to Tibetans. Nothing less, nothing more.

Both china and India cleverly paint the freedom fighters as ‘terrorists’ or ‘ insurgents.’ You should talk to people from Kashmir. How many have you talked with?

They are just like us Tibetans. Some desire total independence from India; others would do with Genuine Autonomy of sort within India.

That is why, if you remember, Xi Jinping was voted by French public as the 3rd most admired persons in the world, beating out HH Dalai Lama at 4th. Now, how do you explain this?

Personally, I recommend a Middle Way Policy for Kashmiris – i.e., until India too makes talking about Middle Way an organized crime, absolutely destroying any validity to the policy and its brainchilds.

There is no sympathy in the world for muslims and arabs. In fact, there is a competition on how can crush the muslims the harshest with islamaphibia spreading like ebola.

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Tib kshatriya says:on 17 August 2018 at 9:40 pm

Your analogy is stupid, facile and wrong. A more apt anology is if Lhasa is overtaken by Chinese or Hui muslims who start identifying themselves as Lhasawas with time and then demand that all remaining Tibetans either convert to their political/ religious ideology/ stop “idol” worship by claiming themselves as majority Lhasawa and demand total allegiance to CCP/ Caliphate.
A better still since you live in Paris is the way Paris suburbs are taken over by Muslims who want the Sharia law and men only areas and want the Jews to be ousted. Then libtards can say Lhasa is for Lhasawas or whoever is the majority in the Paris suburbs can impose their own laws and vow allegiance to their own Caliphate to hell with France or with Tibetans.
China referring to Tibetans as separatists and India referring to the Kashmiri muslims as militans/insurgets is not the same. Tibetans are original inhabitants of Tibet colonized by China. The militants in Kashmir are doing the bidding of Pakistan ISI and following some leaders who are basically remnants from Persian and Uzbek invasion. Yes, I have talked to Kashmiri’s (Pandits and Dogras who stood by their Dharma and never succumbed to conversion) who are refugees in other parts of India and also here in the West. The horror stories of violence and massacre of their people, rape of their women is a tragic one which most people are reluctant to bring to the fore because of political reprisal and continue the appeasement policy.

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Sar Lang, from Usa, says:on 15 August 2018 at 5:50 am

East Turkistan is going through what Tibet went through during the 1950s and 1960s.

Uygurs are doing now what the Tibetan did over three decades back.

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Simply Tibetan, from Dharamshala, says:on 14 August 2018 at 10:55 am

Hey you the fake khampa, it seems like you are on a mission here to turn the Buddhist and Muslim against each other. What good deed did you do by being a Buddhist. Why the hell do you want to grow Buddhism with your sick mind and what benefit do you want from it. Hate whatever or whoever you want but before you puke it out be considerate. Stupid. I hate the red chinese for being the bully, a tyrant, no excuse for that. Sure there days are numbered. Watch out boy. Stop shitting in the public place.

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khampa, from Paris , says:on 14 August 2018 at 12:43 am

China needs to crush dissents, like all other guys do, such as US and UK.

Muslim population is a threat to the growth of buddhism in the world. If buddhism spreads, all buddhists benefits.

Just because this Uighar is in the same victim boat as us tibetans doesn’t necessarily dictate that we have to defend him. In fact, muslim people hate people of oriential features – the slit eye type. there are so many muslims like them in UK. i hate them.

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Sarlang, from Usa, says:on 15 August 2018 at 5:54 am

fake khampa making fake news/

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Tib kshatriya says:on 15 August 2018 at 1:36 am

Khampa,
No, I don’t agree with you. Most of these are innocent people. There have been a few who joined the ISIS but even there they are not treated as equal because like you said its the “slit eye”. Pakistan that is forever shouting on India about Kashmir and Muslims wouldn’t dare to utter a single word against China in support of their fellow Muslim Uighurs. Also, where are the Linda Sarsours and the cabal of lefties/ libtards for Muslims? and fyi, Muslims in US and UK are not being crushed. In fact, they enjoy the most rights and freedoms compared to anywhere else, any Muslim country including their own home countries.